Journal•ISSN: 0022-362X
The Journal of Philosophy
Philosophy Documentation Center
About: The Journal of Philosophy is an academic journal published by Philosophy Documentation Center. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Contemporary philosophy & Analytic philosophy. It has an ISSN identifier of 0022-362X. Over the lifetime, 4780 publications have been published receiving 164448 citations. The journal is also known as: Journal of Philosophy.
Topics: Contemporary philosophy, Analytic philosophy, Western philosophy, Philosophy of sport, Metaphysics
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of direct probabilities, approximate methods and simplifications, and significant importance tests for various complications, including one new parameter, and various complications for frequency definitions and direct methods.
Abstract: 1. Fundamental notions 2. Direct probabilities 3. Estimation problems 4. Approximate methods and simplifications 5. Significance tests: one new parameter 6. Significance tests: various complications 7. Frequency definitions and direct methods 8. General questions
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TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of a person is defined as a concept such that both predicates ascribing states of consciousness and predicates attributing corporeal characteristics are equally applicable to a single individual of that single type.
Abstract: What philosophers have lately come to accept as analysis of the concept of a person is not actually analysis of that concept at all. Strawson, whose usage represents the current standard, identifies the concept of a person as “the concept of a type of entity such that both predicates ascribing states of consciousness and predicates ascribing corporeal characteristics...are equally applicable to a single individual of that single type.”1 But there are many entities besides persons that have both mental and physical properties. As it happens—though it seems extraordinary that this should be so—there is no common English word for the type of entity Strawson has in mind, a type that includes not only human beings but animals of various lesser species as well. Still, this hardly justifies the misappropriation of a valuable philosophical term.
2,351 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an "informational" approach to moral analysis focusing on the admissibility and use of different types of information in moral valuation has been proposed to bring out the content, scope, and limitations of different moral principles.
Abstract: The main aim of Dewey lectures is to explore a moral approach that sees persons from two different perspectives: well-being and agency. Both the "well-being aspect" and the "agency aspect" of persons have their own relevance in the assessment of states and actions. A second objective is to examine a set of metaethical issues, making use of an "informational" approach to moral analysis which focuses on the admissibility and use of different types of information in moral valuation. Informational analysis can be used to bring out the content, scope, and limitations of different moral principles. A few examples may help to illustrate the diversity of ways in which informational constraints may be used through the specification of invariance requirements. Authorship invariance does have some claims to being a reasonable requirement of moral evaluation. The possibility of combining position relativity with authorship invariance is also the reason why positionality of moral valuation is perfectly consistent with objectivity of moral values.
2,168 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence, and apply it to the case of artificial neural networks.
Abstract: From the Publisher:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence.
1,983 citations